[ExI] Capitalism, anti capitalism, emotional arousal

[Amon Zero]

On 10 November 2011 12:03, Henry Rivera <hrivera at alumni.virginia.edu> wrote:

> Wow! How interesting it is to see everyone get all worked up about Zero
> State's development of an ideology, which I might add is still a work in
> progress. My view is that capitalism is a means to an end which will become
> obsolete after a certain tipping point. There is nothing anyone can do
> about that, so in this sense Zero State is just ahead of the curve in
> explicitly welcoming this. An attempt to show that a political system can
> function without capitalistic values is worthwhile. "Unfettered capitalism"
> could improve things in the interim but will eventually become obsolete
> politically as well. The target of current contempt as I see it is
> systematic oppression of millions of people facilitated by capitalism as it
> currently exists driven by greed. Consider the data released this week in
> the US indicating 16% or 49 million people in the US live below or near the
> poverty line, which is $22,000USD for a family of four. Can anyone really
> defend that in this modern age particu!
>  larly in a first world country? On the other hand, people working within
> the current system will argue their accumulation of wealth is fair game;
> they are playing by the rules (which they helped to create I might add,
> which is the nature of oppression and built into the system in the US where
> there is little to limit financial influence of legislators by the wealthy
> relative to Europe for example). Zero State is taking the position that the
> logical solution is a new system that doesn't facilitate the rich getting
> richer by rewarding greed and oppression. Anyone who read Amon's whole
> statement will see this is not an anti free trade position. It's more about
> the activity of free trade as it functions in our current political system.
> Calling that anti-capitalist certainly pushed some buttons and will likely
> change based on recent discussion. As I said the development of this new
> ideology is a work in progress. Contribute. It's your future too. If the
> direction of Zero State i!
>  s not your cup of tea, propose and implement your own solutions to
> compete. Complacency and tolerance of oppression is despicable to me.
> -Henry
>


Henry, I'll get you that $100 on the weekend.

;-)

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